[PyKDE] PyKDE and kipi plugins

Paul Waldo pwaldo at waldoware.com
Thu Aug 3 20:36:15 BST 2006


Jim Bublitz wrote:
> On Thursday 03 August 2006 05:49, Paul Waldo wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm interested in using kipi plugins in my PyKDE application, but I'm
>> unsure how to go about this.  Do I need to get the kipi source and
>> SIPify it?  Thanks in advance!
> 
> It would depend on how you intend to use the plugins, but generally if your 
> intent is to use them as libs and otherwise pass data then it's most likely 
> you would need to do bindings for some kind of interface to the plugins. That 
> could mean binding the plugins themselves (at least their interface) or 
> writing bindings for a wrapper you write (in C++) that interfaces to the 
> plugin.
> 
> Jim
> 

Thanks for the reply, Jim.  Ugh, that sounds like a fair amount of work, 
especially if there are a number of different libraries I need to use...

Paul




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